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Gray, Thomas. An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Sampson Low, Son and Marston, GB, 1869.
Price: US$28.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine, gold lettering and decoration to front cover, blind stamped decoration to rear cover. All edges gold. 16 illustrated plates, some loose. In very good, clean, bright condition BUT prelims and rear pastedown browned / spotted. Covers are a bit marked / darkened and corners and spine ends are bumped and frayed.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$37.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. In good condition overall. Decorated Gutta Percha cloth boards with bright gold and only minor wear and tear. Slightly faded spine - gold still reasonably bright. A.e.g. Some foxing but this is not generally efecting the colours on the colour plates. 16 full page coloured plates by Cooper Clay and Co as called for. Frontispiece of Thomas Gray is missing. The binding is loose. Buying more than one book will save on postage costs. To help our customers, we have split our books into 70 + categories. Size: 7" - 10" Tall
Seller: BIANCOLIBRARY, BILLINGSHURST, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: London, UK: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston. AS IS/No Dustjacket. 1869. . Decorated Cloth. 16 Color Plates & Facsimile Manuscipt in Rear . Sm 4to., v. p., rubbed, bumped, loose pages & plates, spine tips frayed .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
GRAY, Thomas.. An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.. London: Sampson Low Son and Marston, 1869.
Price: US$59.48 + shipping
Description: 4to. [32]pp printed on rectos only, [4]pp facsimile, title-page vignette, 16 colour plates with printed tissue-guards. Original highly decorated red cloth gilt, bevelled edges, aeg. Extremes very lightly rubbed; cloth a little soiled; lacks rfep; random foxing. * Colour plates printed by Cooper, Clay & Co.
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom
Gray, Thomas. AN ELEGY. Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1869.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: AN ELEGY Written in a Country Churchyard has Dark red moroccan leather, Very ornately embossed dec/gilt cover front and rear, front board not attached to spine. Gilt inner dentals. AEG. 16 pictorial colored lithographic plates all present. "From drawings by R. Barnes, R. P. Leitch, E. M. Wimperis, and others". There are 16 full page color plates on heavy stock paper, not just small vignettes, image size 4 3/4" x 6". Book size is 7 1/2" x 10 1/4". 4pp facsimile manuscript of this poem at rear of the book. ***** Shipping covers Canada and USA only.
Seller: E.S., St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Price: US$179.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Handsome clamshell slipcase containing the highly decorated chamfer edged edition brought out to exploit the fourteen coloured engravings by Cooper, Clay & Company, a bit of a novelty for the time. There are some tissue guards in place, and the heavyweight smooth art paper shows the plates at their best. Stored inside this clamshell box, made at a later date, has preserved the book and its gilt Victorian binding. At the rear of the book is a facsimile of the fair copy written by the poet.
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Contemporary full crimson cloth made to imitate morocco. Decorative pebbled cloth title pasted on top cover with gilt borders and ornate gilt floral decorations around title. Gilt text on spine. All edges gilt., Thomas Gray (1716 ? 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem?s origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray?s thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742. Originally titled Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard, the poem was completed when Gray was living near St Giles' parish church at Stoke Poges. It was sent to his friend Horace Walpole, who popularized the poem among London literary circles. Gray was eventually forced to publish the work on 15 February 1751, to pre-empt a magazine publisher from printing an unlicensed copy of the poem. , Size : 8vo (250x177mm). , Illustrated with a small engraved portrait of the author and 16 full page colour lithographs., Ex Libris card pasted on verso of top cover bearing the name Peter Cameron. A fine example of this work in decorative publisher?s cloth. Lithographs are clean and crisp.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada